Barbara Havelková (Oxford)
Writing About a Small Jurisdiction – the Particular and the Universal
13.05.2026 17:15 – 18:45
Historicum Room K201, Schellingstr. 12, Munich
Colloquium “Europe's History of the Present: Universalism and Particularism”
The KFG colloquium continues with its next session on Wednesday, May 13th, with a lecture by Senior Fellow Barbara Havelková on "Writing About a Small Jurisdiction – the Particular and the Universal".
Barbara Havelková is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in Law at St Hilda’s College. She holds degrees from Charles University in Prague (Mgr; summa cum laude), Europa-Institut of Saarland University (LLM) and the University of Oxford (Mst in Legal Research, DPhil).
Havelková’s research and teaching interests include gender legal studies and feminist jurisprudence, equality and anti-discrimination law, constitutional law, EU law and law in post-socialist transitions. Her book, 'Gender Equality in Law: Uncovering the Legacies of Czech State Socialism', was published by Hart/Bloomsbury in 2017, and a volume on ‘Anti-Discrimination Law in Civil Law Jurisdictions’, she co-authored and co-edited, came out in 2019 with Oxford University Press.
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